Meet Our Team

CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER

Christy Jordan-Fenton is best known as the author of four award winning children’s books about Inuvialuk elder Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, and her time at an Indian Residential School, to include the bestselling Fatty Legs.

For more than a decade she gave over 100 presentations internationally on residential school history for audiences K-12, and for the public, and facilitated numerous professional development workshops for educators at all levels, internationally. She also helped to develop numerous school curriculums centered around Fatty Legs and she and Margaret’s other books, for schools across Canada and the US. She has facilitated workshops/ delivered talks for such prestigious organizations as USBBY, IBBY, AKLA, Feria Internacional del Libro la Habana, IRSCL, Amnesty International Canada, BCTF, the TRC, and numerous writers’ festivals and teachers’ conferences.

In addition Christy has been an Aboriginals Mastering Entrepreneurship facilitator (AbME), and has taught essential skills and tourism programs primarily for cohorts facing a variety of barriers. She is a business and employment coach with a focus on Indigenous and New Canadians.
Christy also specializes in brand storytelling, to include concept development, vision crafting, strategic planning, and copywriting, and has worked with visual and musical artists such as Keith Secola (Anishinabe), Garry Oker (Dane-zaa), and Mike Holden (Saulteau-Cree).

Her current passion is with the TIDE (Technology in Indigenous-Designed Experiences) and HIDE (Hospitality in Indigenous-Designed Experiences) tourism programs she has developed around virtual tourism and in-person experiences respectively, where she can utilize her abilities to coach and mentor cultural storytelling and translate cultural realities into international experiences.

In a former life she has been an infantry soldier, a bareback bronc rider, a wild pig farmer, and a wilderness survival instructor (having worked for Job Corps to develop a leadership challenge program that was later implemented nationally throughout other US Department of Labor Job Corps centers). She has lived in Australia, South Africa, and the US. She studied Peace, War and Diplomacy at Norwich University, military college of VT, where in addition to her regular academic schedule, she attended leadership and facilitation classes, and was the second in command of the university’s Special Operations Company. She has a master’s diploma from UPEACE in Human Rights and Forced Displacement, and is a certified Rule the Room trainer in Virtual Training Mastery, Curriculum Development, and Adult Education, and is nearing completion of a certificate in Adult Education from the Canadian College of Educators.

Christy is part of the Vital Voices sisterhood, having completed a VV Lead fellowship that provided training in such areas as Human Resources, Measuring and Communicating Social Impact, Leading and Managing Social Enterprises, Advocacy for Social Impact Leaders, Essential Skills, Public Relations, and more. She has recently completed a VV Scopeathon where she received mentorship from Johnson & Johnson innovators to help develop a plan to address community needs gaps.

Having been raised part of her life by a Cree-Metis survivor of Île-à-la-Crosse Residential School, Jordan-Fenton is passionate about mentoring her three Inuvialuit children toward being change-makers who embody cultural pride and carry on the work of their late grandmother Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton. As part of the Yellow Thunder Sun Dance family of the Kanai Blackfoot, she has raised her children in ceremony, and continues to work toward carrying herself in a good way for her family and her community.